by KarenD | Jun 3, 2019 | Making Mentoring Work
by Jean Rhodes Here’s a story for graduation season. A few years ago, I had the opportunity to attend a commencement address at Princeton University. The speaker, writer Michael Lewis, described a study in which researchers divided UC Berkeley students into...
by Miranda Aulie | May 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
As a Kinship Mentor, you are considered a mandated reporter. Please feel free to watch this short training to clarify and answer any questions you may...
by KarenD | May 21, 2019 | Making Mentoring Work
by Jean Rhodes Considering how widespread it is, it is somewhat alarming that there is not yet a uniform standard of best practice around social media in youth mentoring. Granted, many programs have wrestled with this issue, and we sought to determine how to update...
by KarenD | May 7, 2019 | Making Mentoring Work
By Jennifer Merrill, MENTOR Marketing & Communications Manager Yoda and Luke Skywalker. Coach Bombay and the Mighty Ducks. Professor Dumbledore and Harry Potter. When you think of mentors in pop culture, the stories are endless, building on a common thread of how...
by KarenD | Apr 15, 2019 | Making Mentoring Work
Childhood poverty is a widespread issue in the United States with one in five children living in need. Poverty has both immediate and lasting consequences that can follow a child into adulthood. Here are just ten ways poverty can impact the health and education of a...
by KarenD | Apr 9, 2019 | Making Mentoring Work
By: Jean Rhodes “It is extraordinarily difficult to love children in the abstract, to devote oneself exclusively to the next generation. It is only through precise, attentive knowledge of particular children that we become – as we must – informed advocates for the...
by KarenD | Apr 1, 2019 | Making Mentoring Work
By Stephanie Malia Krauss, youthtoday.org The other day I attended a diversity training at work. The facilitator talked about who and how we hire. She said something that really stuck with me: You get hired based on who you know; you get promoted based on who knows...
